Scud

That sounds like a direct quote from the shop manual.

The link worked for me. My Scura had under 200 miles on it when I bought it. I guess it's been close to 3 years now. It was cool to have a belated new-bike experience. But a brand-new Scura comes with a full complement of challenges: potentially under-sprung suspension, bubbling engine paint, oversized pawl arm boss in transmission, and, of course, the big one... the aluminum flywheel. The exhaust is the original, carbon-wrapped Lafranconi.

Can't recall the specifics, but I think the basic answer is that with a plate it will retain a bit more oil than without. There's probably a good explanation by Pete somewhere on here. I think the basic idea is that the tray keeps the spray and "windage"down so less oil goes through the breather system.

It'll take a gallon. But convert it to metric first so it will fit.

Clever, and good-looking solution. I have some 80mm O-rings left over from when I put Speedhuts on my (ex) LeMans. The O-rings will reduce vibration a bit and give you a good seal to prevent water getting into the cups. Yours for the asking (just send me your address in a PM if you want a set of 4). FWIW - you could split some black rubber grommets and achieve a cleaner wire-exit at the back of the cups.

Good try at storytelling, Docc. But a story that begins with Honda and ends with it starting is hardly a surprise. One of my dirt-biker buddies used to say "Honda means 'doesn't break' in Japanese."

That could be a worthy project. Meanwhile Robert needs to pack a little bottle Love Potion Tenni #9 for the Tazzy Trip. Watch the wallabies.

I got Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia from last year's thread.

Now how much fun would it have been without this side trip? It would have been about as much fun as a Scura without bubbling engine paint, an exploding flywheel, poorly adjusted suspension, and cheap, plastic speedometer drive gears.

Just talked with the guys at the spring company. It seems their manufacturing tolerances are not quite as tight as Chuck's experience. However, we have sorted it out and they are making a new batch of springs at a 75% discount from the original order. This is based on my assertion that three flaws were their fault, and one flaw was our fault. So we are adding a little to the unit cost of the springs. They can ship to me within 2 weeks. I don't want money from anyone until we verify that we have in-spec springs in-hand. After that, I'll give all the ordering details.

That looks metric thinking to me. Just like the milliphoto, the 1/1000th area of a picture that is worth only one word. But if Helen's face could have launched 1,024 ships, it would not be metric. It would be base-eight. Base-eight is why we have USB drives in 32MB, 64MB, etc. - and why we get screen dimensions like 1024 x 768. Nuthin' to do while we wait for news on the inch-spec springs for our metric motorbikes...

I have a nice metric tape by Starrett: https://www.amazon.com/Starrett-KTX34-5M-N-Measuring-Graduation-Interval/dp/B00ELMS1G8/ref=pd_bxgy_328_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00ELMS1G8&pd_rd_r=VST13ZTV958NTK546MX2&pd_rd_w=a2NvK&pd_rd_wg=fpV44&psc=1&refRID=VST13ZTV958NTK546MX2 The cloth metric tape measures are good for measuring suspension sag: https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Medical-Measurement-Centimetre-Reverse/dp/B0173AWLJ2/ref=sr_1_3?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1517713265&sr=1-3&keywords=metric+cloth+tape+measure&dpID=51d1TW9Lk%252BL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch 20 year search is over.

The US missed a great opportunity to go all metric in the 1970s. It's a far better system and easier to work with. Feet, fractional inches, quarts, tablespoons, miles, dozens, pounds, Fahrenheit temperatures... I'd gladly get rid of all of it (especially ounces, where we stupidly use the same word for weight and volume). Just make everything base-ten. End of rant.

Here is Chuck's drawing. I thought it would be worth having this in the "permanent record."

Ha... that was great.

I think it might be fuel supply. I wanted to clean the fuel-level sender anyway (because it's not accurate), so I took out the whole pump assembly to get at the fuel-level sender. I found a lot of junk on the fuel pick-up screen. I had the tank propped up for a while, and I suspect that every bit of loose junk in the tank settled around the screen. So I'm gonna replace the filter, pump, and submersible hoses. Hopefully that does the trick. Parts were cheap too - the ducati.ms forum had all the compatible parts identified, for much lower than the dealer prices.

I noticed the bent long arms as well. The manufacturer is Jones Spring Company in Kentucky. My contact there has been good so far. I'll ship the remaining springs back tomorrow. Once armed with a new drawing, I'll talk with them about a re-run. They've been responsive so far, and didn't put up any resistance when I claimed a problem - they just want the springs back so they can see the flaws for themselves. It will either work out (which I expect) - or we will find another manufacturer.

Ok - so I just need to be sure they understand the min/max on the ID. That wasn't clear to me, but I don't know the "secret handshake" of engineering drawings. And I'll strike the strike that.

Nice one scudd, but I'm not sure about the green vents. Up there with Chucks red fork gators I think. The Ducati gods may take revenge on you:) Ciao Hmm... perhaps I have angered the duck-gods. She gave me a crank-but-no-start right after this. Hopefully fixable this weekend, parts have been delivered. I'm not "sure" about the green vents either. But it's just a wrap that I could remove easily if I want to. Plus, I think it's a better idea than buying a Benelli Tornado. As for geniuses... they don't always dress well.

I had a shifting problem once because the nut on the forward heim joint was hitting the starter. I turned it around so the screw head faced the starter and the problem was solved.

Ok, sounds like we are close to taking the next step. On the inside diameter... If I recall correctly, the drawing gave a minimum, but not a maximum, diameter. I can send the springs back in a few days - I'm away from home right now. Chuck, I'll need a revised drawing, you can e-mail a pdf to me. waar gewerkt wordt vallen spaanders.

Weak springs would result in clutch slippage under heavy loads. I replaced a slipping clutch that probably still had some life in it - would have gone longer with stiffer springs. Broken springs would probably cause irregular engagement, but I'm just speculating and have never experienced that.